Re: [linux-audio-dev] MTC, SMPTE, etc.

[Iain Sandoe]

Benno wrote: 
> May I ask a stupid question:  is in practice a card / piece of hw with SMPTE
> support (input) nothing more than a DAC which reads the analogue signal and
> decodes the timing ?
> (I thought SMPTE used a very complicated and expensive approach to encode the
> timing information :-) )

There are a few outboard ones... (although at the mid-range+ price bracket).
AFAIK a few of the PCI cards have this as an "option" (but I'm not sure on
that score).

I use the facility built into the OpCode studio-4 midi interface (hence my
interest in getting Linux drivers for it :-)

Iain.